<\/center> By Matt Flores _ Express-News Staff Writer _ December 19, 1997<\/font> A teen-ager was sentenced to 15 years behind bars<\/font> Thursday for her role in a sex-for-cash deal<\/font> that escalated into a botched robbery<\/font> and attack on a 65-year-old man. <\/font> The assault also ended in the death of a 17-year-old accomplice, who was shot by the man, Borge Hansen, in self-defense<\/font>. <\/font>In an emotional<\/font> half-day of testimony that left the defendant, her parents and the girl’s juvenile probation officer in tears<\/font>, District Judge Andy Mireles ordered the girl be assigned to the Texas Youth Commission, where she must serve a minimum of three years<\/font> before she can be considered for parole. <\/font><\/p>\n “I thought the sentence was appropriate<\/font>,” said prosecutor Jill Mata, who had recommended the 15-year sentence. <\/font><\/p>\n “The parents haven’t exhibited an ability to supervise her<\/font>, and you can’t just watch her 24 hours a day in a confined environment and expect her to do well,” Mata added, referring to testimony earlier from the girl’s parents that she received constant supervision<\/font>. <\/font><\/p>\n The girl’s attorney, Diane Rivera, said she was surprised by the sentence and promised to appeal it. <\/font><\/p>\n “I’m very surprised because the judge noted that she wasn’t a principal participant<\/font> in the crime,” Rivera said. <\/font><\/p>\n The girl, whose name is not being printed because she was a juvenile at the time of the offense, was convicted Wednesday of aggravated robbery after a jury deliberated just more than 50 minutes. <\/font><\/p>\n Prosecutors presented several witnesses Thursday, including school and law enforcement officials<\/font>, who testified the girl had persistent behavioral problems, was known to associate with gang members<\/font> and that she once was convicted of marijuana possession<\/font>. <\/font><\/p>\n The girl also had a shoplifting<\/font> charge pending at the time of the aggravated robbery, they said. <\/font><\/p>\n But in emotional defense testimony, the girl’s parents described her as an average teen-ager<\/font> who sometimes used bad judgment, but one who never was violent<\/font>. <\/font><\/p>\n “She’s a normal teen-ager. She’ll push her curfew a little bit, back talk a little bit . . . but she’s not aggressive or violent,” her mother testified. <\/font><\/p>\n Juvenile probation officer Carol Sawtelle tearfully recommended the girl be placed in a Texas Youth Commission facility. <\/font><\/p>\n “She has to answer for what she did,”<\/font> Sawtelle said. <\/font><\/p>\n According to prosecutors and state’s witnesses, the girl and a companion on April 8 negotiated a price of $100 to have sex with Hansen while the three were meeting at a Northeast Side coffee shop. <\/font><\/p>\n Hansen, an Army retiree and volunteer S<\/font> h<\/font> r<\/font> i<\/font> n<\/font> e<\/font> r <\/font> C<\/font> <\/font> l<\/font> o<\/font> w<\/font> n<\/font>, then drove the girls to his house. <\/font><\/p>\n After a few minutes there, Hansen testified the girls began wandering through the house without his permission. <\/font><\/p>\n Hansen said he then changed his mind and took the girls back to the coffee shop. After a short period, the girls returned with two male companions, one of whom attacked Hansen with a knife<\/font>. <\/font><\/p>\n It was during the attack that Hansen pulled a gun and fatally shot Jessica Longoria.<\/font> The others fled after taking liquor, power tools, jewelry and other items. <\/font><\/p>\n The two males, Charles David Cameron and Robert Edward Kennedy, both 17, are awaiting trials in state district court. <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Teen sentenced for role in violent robbery By Matt Flores _ Express-News Staff Writer _ December 19, 1997 A teen-ager was sentenced to 15 years behind bars Thursday for her role in a sex-for-cash deal that escalated into a botched robbery and attack on a 65-year-old man. 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